446 Quotes by Ramana Maharshi

The Self is the only Reality. (p. 38)

The universe is only expanded Self. It is not different from the Self. (p. 77)

If you understand your own reality, then that of the rishis and Masters will be clear to you. There is only one Master and that is the Self […] The power is only one in all. (p. 110-111)

The Master is the same as God and not different from him. (p. 27)

Questioner: Can one read others minds? Ramana Maharshi: Where are others apart from one‘s own Self?

There is neither creation nor destruction,neither destiny nor free will, neitherpath nor achievement.This is the final truth.

I Am is the name of God. Of all the definitions of God, none is indeed so well put as the Biblical statement "I Am that I Am" in Exodus (chap. 3). There are other statements, such as Brahmaivaham, Aham Brahmasmi, and Soham. But none is so direct as the name Jehovah = I Am. The Absolute Being is what is – it is the Self. It is God. Knowing the Self, God is known. In fact, God is none other than the Self. (p. 76)

The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.

Does a man who is acting on the stage in a female part forget that he is a man? Similarly, we too must play our parts on the stage of life, but we must not identify ourselves with those parts.